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  • TheUtopianCat
    7·
    2 years ago

    I’m glad to be here! I started getting hot flashes a few weeks ago. I thought I was going to get through peri without experiencing them. No such luck.

    • leftylibra@lemmy.worldOPM
      8·
      2 years ago

      Before peri, do you remember thinking…“what’s the big deal about hot flashes?” Like so what, you get hot for a few minutes, how bad could that be?? Some poor folk get them every hour and lasting for 10 mins or more!

      • TheUtopianCat
        6·
        2 years ago

        Oh yeah, absolutely. A few weeks ago I was at a conference, standing in a line with my colleagues, dripping with sweat and feeling just way too hot. It lasted so long. T’was not fun.

        • Mohkia@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 years ago

          That sounds awful. I am so sorry, don’t think I have this yet but I’m sure I will find out. How long into peri before you started getting this out of curiousity?

          • TheUtopianCat
            4·
            2 years ago

            I actually have no real way to gauge how long I’ve been in peri! I have a mirena so I stopped getting my period a really long time ago. It’s only going by other symptoms that I figured out I was in peri. I’m 49, and I think I’ve been in peri for at least a year.

            • leftylibra@lemmy.worldOPM
              1·
              2 years ago

              Yup symptoms…that’s all you can go by. Even then if you keep the mirena, you won’t really know if you’ve reached post-meno either because symptoms can carry on after that too.

          • leftylibra@lemmy.worldOPM
            3·
            2 years ago

            There’s really no rhyme or reason with hot flashes. Mine didn’t start until I became post-meno!

            • Mohkia@lemmy.world
              4·
              2 years ago

              I’ll just have to wait and see I guess. Maybe I will move back to Canada if it gets too much. Lol. Moved away to leave the cold winters. 🥶

      • unexplaineditem@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 years ago

        I don’t get hot flashes. I get a whole hot morning, every morning. It’s Winter here and I generally walk my cat around 10am. I rarely wear a jumper/jacket. We go for our second walk in the afternoon (bengal life) and I’m rugged up appropriately. It’s wild.